Sketches of Creation: A Popular View of Some of the Grand Conclusions of the Sciences in Reference to the History of Matter and of Life. Together with a Statement of the Intimations of Science Respecting the Primordial Condition and the Ultimate Destiny of the Earth and the Solar System |
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... appearance of a bivalve shell , like a clam or an oyster . I was passing a delightful summer- day amid the romantic scenery of Trenton Falls , and broke from the rocky wall of the deep - cut gorge these unexpect- ed forms . Who has not ...
... appearance of a bivalve shell , like a clam or an oyster . I was passing a delightful summer- day amid the romantic scenery of Trenton Falls , and broke from the rocky wall of the deep - cut gorge these unexpect- ed forms . Who has not ...
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... appearance , and in 1773 Micra - Kameni , Even the an- cient islands of Santorin , Thrasia , and Aphronisi themselves rose from the sea at the termination of an earthquake some ar mused by t soring bene 4 out a **. THE ORDEAL BY WATER . 23.
... appearance , and in 1773 Micra - Kameni , Even the an- cient islands of Santorin , Thrasia , and Aphronisi themselves rose from the sea at the termination of an earthquake some ar mused by t soring bene 4 out a **. THE ORDEAL BY WATER . 23.
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... appearance . Vegetable life is capable of enduring more extreme condi- tions . Vegetation could better tolerate the excess of car- bonic acid in the atmosphere and the waters . Vegetation , moreover , is capable of drawing its ...
... appearance . Vegetable life is capable of enduring more extreme condi- tions . Vegetation could better tolerate the excess of car- bonic acid in the atmosphere and the waters . Vegetation , moreover , is capable of drawing its ...
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... and jelly - like , and inanimate , to all appearance , as any thing can be . But this is our Protozoan . It may be the species upon which science has imposed the name Amœba Fig . 17. Structure of the oldest known Fossil ( A RAY OF LIFE .
... and jelly - like , and inanimate , to all appearance , as any thing can be . But this is our Protozoan . It may be the species upon which science has imposed the name Amœba Fig . 17. Structure of the oldest known Fossil ( A RAY OF LIFE .
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... and inanimate , to all appearance , as any thing can be . But this is our Protozoan . It may be the species upon which science has imposed the name Amoeba princeps , preserving the same gravity at the christening as A RAY OF LIFE . 69.
... and inanimate , to all appearance , as any thing can be . But this is our Protozoan . It may be the species upon which science has imposed the name Amoeba princeps , preserving the same gravity at the christening as A RAY OF LIFE . 69.
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Page 93 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign. Sails the unshadowed main, — • The venturous bark that flings^ On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Page 94 - The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare ; Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl, — Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell...
Page 92 - DEEP in the wave is a coral grove. Where the purple mullet and goldfish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine...
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Page 94 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new: Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
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Page 93 - Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding water. The native pilot of this little bark Put out a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting breeze a twofold sail, And mounted up and glided down the billow In happy freedom, pleased to feel the air And wander in the luxury of light.